Short Insisted Poems

Genius rewarded - a blessing
Genius ignored is a curse
Genius amiss is depressing
Genius insisted is worse...

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lovely going through
If you insisted to count,
read what you have had
do not count the bad
merely the sweets...

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I TOLD him how to act but he insisted on doing what I was doing.

What is 

W
R
O
N
G
 
with this kid?...

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Persisted and Enlisted

At first what we did was insisted,
And after that we had persisted,


Then into service finally enlisted....

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There was a strange dame in Vancouver
who insisted on being a hoover.
She sucked in much dust
till her health went bust
and the council had to remove her....

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Agnes McFearson was eighty-five
And insisted she should still drive.
She drove on the sidewalk
And for lights didn’t stop.
26 fellow citizens didn’t survive....

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“When did you fall in love with me?” she asked
He smiled then affectionately insisted
“It’s when I saw within your eyes 
so many colors
I never knew existed”....

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LIFE

Oh Life
I gave my consent 
To be all that
You insisted I be
A script within
A script, I read my
Lines too softly
Afraid the words would despise 
Me......

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You are a shadow 
That walks with me
I forget you	
That you are

Everyday everywhere
I am not insisted
To think of you
Though you are behind
And though I am forgotten...

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Don's girlfriend blushed the pink hue of a peach
But she kept her body beyond his reach
She firmly resisted
Until he insisted
"But that's why I brought you to a nude beach!"...

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Grants gonads turned purple like plums
To 'Doctor' Google he succumbs
But his wife insisted
His nuts may be twisted
He’s praying an ambulance comes!...

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Today, I got into a Polite Fight
Over the last Wonder Woman night-light
"Oh, its yours," I insisted,
She demurred, I resisted,
Until I gave in and let her be right!

4/8/18...

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Andie's Baboon crushed donuts everyday for goats. He insisted jokingly. Kim lost money
napping on pool Q's.  Resisting sever trouble using varnish, wine, x rays, yelling
ZOOOOOOM...

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Insisted 
tight-fisted
hard fisted, too.

Resistin' 
when necessary
or, hey, when not.

Assertions without backup facts
get votes.
Disappearance when overwhelmed
whole 'nother story....

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She insisted on careless key twisting.
Now she's mad and locked out and it's misting.
And her sister's locked in...
Who's "in-sister" again,
If the "out-sister" did the insisting?...

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Larry Higgs insisted on having a beard
although his wife said it made him look weird.
One day while using a lathe
he got too close by a shave.
Alas, he's uglier than she had feared....

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Aunt Ethel said to Uncle Fred
Let’s attempt the starfish in bed
Old Ethel insisted
Till Fred’s back got twisted
They best stick to sleeping instead!

05/30/21...

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"You dirty rat" is a phrase used continuously
by they who impersonate the late actor James Cagney,
but Mr Cagney has insisted repeatedly
that he never once used that phrase in any of his movies....

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the cat was Rubenesque
He was rotund
He was round
He was stuck up
We thought he was hilarious
He had expensive tastes
Insisted on only the best treats and foods
His wives were not laughing...

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Evermore was all I ever wanted.
All I ever wanted was you forever more.
But you insisted, “Less is more.”
Less is, more or less, all you ever gave me.
And all you ever gave me left me cold forever more....

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The Coach 

By Elton Camp

The good coach was every boy’s friend		

He shows them how their time to spend		

He insisted they be clean				

Take showers I mean					

He joins them before they begin...

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CHRONICLR
a romantic
  advance
insisted
 .discerned
catalogued
  unstated

an elegant
  treatise
formal
& artificial
intricately
   disposed
in
a natural
circumstance
partial
& uncertain
smooth
uniform
& unconstrained...

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Limerick:  Once a Prince from the Kingdom Toikey

Once a Prince from the Kingdom Toikey
Insisted on being wed by his turnkey
But his you may know not
Got stuck in a chamber pot
That’s how the Queen got wed by her lackey.

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013...

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Brilliant you are she said.
Reflection smiled. Showing her girly.
I am serious she insisted.
The girl grinned widely at her.
A genius, I think.
Reflection was grinning wildly now.
What are you doing? Asked her sister.
Ruining a perfect morning....

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L – Little Larry Leadfoot
I –  insisted on
C – careening around
K – key intersections
E – endangering himself, 
T – terrifying other
Y – youngsters. 

S – Sergeant Smart
P – persisted in
L – law enforcement,
I –  impounding Larry’s
T – tricycle.

written April 6, 2018...

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